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• Bharat Ratna for Sir Syed: Critical Analysis | Badre Alam Khan

  19 November 2021, by Badre Alam Khan

  To celebrate birth anniversary of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan (1817-1998), the Aligarh Muslim University’s alumni who are living in different parts of country including in abroad used to organize a host of academic and literary programmes on 17th October every year to express their tribute. This time while celebrating 204th birth anniversary of Sir Syed (a great educationist, historian and social reformer of 19th century colonial India), the retired Director General of Police(DGP) of Chhattisgarh, (…)

• Mexican women win abortion rights, state by state | Carli Pierson

  19 November 2021

  by Carli Pierson
  Slowly but steadily, Mexican women are gaining access to legal abortion – despite right-wing politicians and conservative doctors who oppose it
  Valeria, a 17-year-old girl skateboarding with her friends on the boardwalk in Veracruz, on the south-eastern coast of Mexico, is enthusiastic about recent legal changes that have decriminalised abortion in her state.
  “I totally agree with it. Every woman should be able to decide about her body and not have to go to jail,” she (…)

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  Photo: A woman bids farewell to her husband leaving for work in the Middle East at Dhaka airport, Bangladesh - 1996 | Shahidul Alam

  19 November 2021
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  Video: Author Amitav Ghosh on the Violence Behind the Climate Crisis

  19 November 2021

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  “A Process of Violence”: Indian Author Amitav Ghosh on How Colonialism Fueled the Climate Crisis by Democracy Now! https://youtu.be/QzsGDZWJU88

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  27 Down (1974) [w/ English subs] | Awtar Krishna Kaul

  19 November 2021

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  27 Down (सत्ताईस डाउन, 1974) by R I S H I https://youtu.be/kBwJPErunzQ

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Nov 13, 2021

  13 November 2021

  * Is Vigilantism a form of Terrorism? | S G Vombatkere
  * Reading Political Economy with Michael Perelman | Arup Kumar Sen
  * Recalling an Episode from Lakhimpur Kheri’s Past History of Protest | Sumanta Banerjee
  * Rafale controversy – the mystery deepens | Upal Chakraborty

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Nov 13, 2021

  13 November 2021

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, November 13, 2021
  The bending of rules and misuse powers by police, enforcement, security agencies, state officials and by ruling politicians are not new but their repeated use is endangering our democracy. Our Government seems not swayed by any criticism local or international in the manner of bringing sweeping national policy measures without consultation, passing of laws without proper parliamentary debate, ‘managing’ of levers of power to protect or (…)

• V for Vigilante, T for Terrorist - Is Vigilantism a form of Terrorism? | S G Vombatkere

  13 November 2021, by S G Vombatkere

  Surveys indicate that instances of vigilante groups taking the law into their own hands for various reasons connected with inter-faith matters, are on the increase. At the same time, terrorism is a subject of daily reportage. Both these matters affect everybody directly or indirectly, and bear discussion.
  ‘V’ for Vigilantism
  A vigilante is “a member of a self-appointed group of citizens who undertake law enforcement in their community without legal authority, typically because the legal (…)

• The Politics of Inverted Binoculars | TJS George

  13 November 2021, by T J S George

  IMPRESSIONS
  "In UP you won’t see a criminal even if you use binoculars." In India you won’t find a criminal making such a claim, but you will find politicians doing it. Hence the amazing assertion made by India’s amazing Home Minister. Are Indians as dumb as he thinks? No one needs binoculars to see how hooligans often rule the roost in UP. This has been the case for quite some time. Who can forget Raja Bhaiya, described by BJP leader Kalyan Singh himself as Kunda Ka Goonda? (…)

• Reading Political Economy with Michael Perelman | Arup Kumar Sen

  13 November 2021, by Arup Kumar Sen

  Domination of the market in our lifeworld is a given fact in neo-liberal times. The proponents of neo-liberalism preach the doctrine of the market as an axiom.
  Michael Perelman, in his seminal book, The Invention of Capitalism: Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive Accumulation (Duke University Press, 2000), interrogated the doctrine of the market formulated by the theorists of the Classical Political Economy. He argued: “For more than two centuries, successive (…)